Le bain et le miroir: soins du corps et cosmétiques de l'antiquité à la Renaissance by Isabelle Bardiès-Fronty
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Beauty, Sex and Power by Brett Dolman
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ISBN: 9781857597561
Publication Date: 2012-05-15
Charles II's reign was a period of revolutionary experimentation: in science, art and sexual etiquette. For the first time in British history, Royal mistresses - such as Nell Gwyn - played an active, public role in court life. Women sensed new possibilit
La poudre et le fard: une histoire des cosmétiques de la Renaissance aux Lumières by Catherine Lanoë
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Publication Date: 2008
Titian's Vision of Women: Beauty, Love, Poetry by Sylvia Ferino
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Publication Date: 2022-08-02
The dominant role of female beauty in 16th-century Venice is unique. One reason for this is the Serenissima's distinctive political-social structure, which granted women special rights in connection with their dowry and their ability to inherit; another was Venice's pivotal role as an international cultural centre. The crucial impetus for the visual realisation of this importance of women came from the city's greatest artist: Titian. For him, artistic beauty was identical with female beauty. He was less interested in the canon of exterior beauty than in a women's character, in femininity as such.
Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England by Edith Snook
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Publication Date: 2011-04-15
Divided into three sections on cosmetics, clothes and hairstyling, this book explores how early modern women regarded beauty culture and in what ways skin, clothes and hair could be used to represent racial, class and gender identities, and to convey political, religious and philosophical ideals.